Data mining (Topical Term)

Adriaans, P. Data mining, 1996: p. 5 (there is confusion about the exact meaning of the terms "data mining" and "KDD" (knowledge in databases) with many authors regarding them as synonymous; KDD is def. as the non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful knowledge from data; KDD is a multi-disciplinary field of research with machine learning, statistics, database technology, expert systems and data visualization all making a contribution)

Penguin dict. of information technology, 1994 (Data mining: deriving useful information from large databases, using techniques such as statistical and sensitivity analysis)